Gideon said to Him, O my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? But now Jehovah has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

But we will prepare and do whatever goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil.

And the women also said, when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make our cakes in her image, and pour out drink offerings to her without our men?

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Jehovah looked down from Heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

Thus says Jehovah, Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you have been sold for your iniquities, and your mother has been put away for your sins.

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

Therefore God also gives them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

For this reason God gives them up to vile passions. For even their women change the natural use for what is contrary to nature.

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

defamers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

and the way of peace they have not known.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.